My little pussy ass gym had a 'weightlifting' contest yesterday

[hornedfrogs07]

....Intramural deal here at school......the best press was 360, best squat was 405, both by the same dude; no deads. The vast, vast majority were in weight classes of <195, and barely even pressed their bodyweight, although I think one little 145lb dude got 300 on bench.

I woulda competed, as they weren't really strict about form, spotting, etc., but I'm so far off of my old maxes due to much-needed time off over break and my head not being where it should be. If I could still hit the weights I did about 3 months ago, i woulda killed.

 

[necro96080]

That's pretty good, the guy that weighs a buck n a half putting up three hundie. What school are we talkin'?? High school? College?

 

[Smallguy]

145 and benching 300 is definately impressive IMO that kid sohlud have won the bench comp over a 195lb guy doing 360

 

[gcs118]

Hey don't be hating on us newbies/weaklings! I'm 180-185 lbs and I can only press 205-210 max. Don't discourage us from competing

 

[Mudge]

I'm sure nobody is, everyone starts somewhere. Without training I wouldn't even bench my bodyweight. I'm 260 and good for 435 if I dont hurt.

 

[pullinbig]

....Intramural deal here at school......the best press was 360, best squat was 405, both by the same dude; no deads. The vast, vast majority were in weight classes of <195, and barely even pressed their bodyweight, although I think one little 145lb dude got 300 on bench.

I woulda competed, as they weren't really strict about form, spotting, etc., but I'm so far off of my old maxes due to much-needed time off over break and my head not being where it should be. If I could still hit the weights I did about 3 months ago, i woulda killed.

spikey you should have competed. next time do the meet regardless of where you at, barring injury. theb experience is invaluable. saying you would have won if..... its one thing to say what you would have done but unless you put up the numbers under meet conditions you dont know.

 

[RJ]

I'm sure nobody is, everyone starts somewhere. Without training I wouldn't even bench my bodyweight. I'm 260 and good for 435 if I dont hurt.

are you bulking now Fatso??? lol

i thought you were in the 240s?

 

[Mudge]

Yep yep, and yeah I'm somewhere around 15% bodyfat so fatso is close enough. Cutting sucks because it takes forever, I lose weight very slowly and I just dont feel like dieting for 16-20 weeks so I am back to ~5k calories. I peaked at 262.5 but I am watching my waistline so I'm curtailing calories for a short while.

 

[hornedfrogs07]

That's pretty good, the guy that weighs a buck n a half putting up three hundie. What school are we talkin'?? High school? College?

College.

Hey don't be hating on us newbies/weaklings! I'm 180-185 lbs and I can only press 205-210 max. Don't discourage us from competing

Hey, don't get me wrong -- I love seeing newbies getting started in the gym, and I wouldn't do anything to discourage them. I'm just saying that most of these people are far from 'newbies' in a traditional sense of just starting to go to the gym....most of them have been lifting regularly for at least 2-3 years, if not more, and their lifts never increase.

spikey you should have competed. next time do the meet regardless of where you at, barring injury. theb experience is invaluable. saying you would have won if..... its one thing to say what you would have done but unless you put up the numbers under meet conditions you dont know.

I probably will next time. This one, I only found out about as I was going into the gym to do my leg workout.....chick friend of mine working the desk kept telling me "[insert name here] you need to compete" and I was just like "WTF are you talking about?" until she explained it to me.

I'm not saying that I would have won, I'm saying I woulda been in the top 2-3. (and yes, I know talk is cheap)

Also, this was FAR, FAR from 'meet conditions.' The squatters had spotters, hands on chest helping, benchers were bouncing weights like there was no tomorrow, and/or spotters assisted on several "good" lifts by the smaller guys.

 

[Deep-Squats]

My gym had one recently too. It was 4 lifts, and the sum of the reps was combined
Body weight squats, bensh, and over hand chins, + half body weight arm curls.
Interesting. Favours the smaller shorter guys. The "winner" was a very short Greek guys mid twenties. He weighed 60kg and did 62 squats, 40bench, 15 chins and 20 arm curls. The next person got half as many reps.
I didnt compete, I was at work
If I had competed I would have finished close to LAST.

 

[pullinbig]

My gym had one recently too. It was 4 lifts, and the sum of the reps was combined
Body weight squats, bensh, and over hand chins, + half body weight arm curls.
Interesting. Favours the smaller shorter guys. The "winner" was a very short Greek guys mid twenties. He weighed 60kg and did 62 squats, 40bench, 15 chins and 20 arm curls. The next person got half as many reps.
I didnt compete, I was at work
If I had competed I would have finished close to LAST.

fianlly an honest man in the bunch. =0)

thats an intersting meet. i seen bench meets where they do BW for total reps. most of the time some guy in the 198s hits like 60 reps for the win. 5 foot tall mcvivars running around who bench 655 for a single.

 

[gcs118]

If I had competed I would have finished close to LAST.

No shame in losing. My gym is about to have a bench press competition and I KNOW I'll get my ass handed to me. I'm doing it for the sake of competition rather than to impress people. If I don't have the balls to lift at a rec, how could I do it at a real PL meet?

 

[pullinbig]

if you get a pr then its a more than a succesful meet. even if you dont hit a pr you gain experince. and we all know that experience is the best teacher.